The Sutherland spaceport is a proposal for the first spaceport in the United Kingdom. It is planned to be located within the Melness Crofting Estate, on the A’ Mhòine peninsula in Sutherland, Caithness and Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom. The site of the UK Space Agency’s small vertical launching spaceport for small satellites makes it a good location for polar orbit and sun-synchronous orbit launches. – Photo credit: Google Maps

The UK Government recently awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Orbex to being building and launching rockets out of a remote peninsula in the very north of the scottish mainland.
Lots of you have been asking whether this is a good place for a launch site, and whether the UK can even make an impact in the space launch market.

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Did you see the recent announcement at the Farnborough Airshow?
Orbex has gained £30m in funding to enable them to set up the first Space Port in Sutherland Scotland.
There was a bit of a media frenzy but we managed to elbow the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc. out of the way and we had a quick chat with Chris Larmour, the CEO of Orbex to find out more.
Whilst we won’t be on the first flight, we will do our best to be there to see the takeoff – scheduled for 2021.
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UK's first spaceport to be built on Scottish peninsula

Scotland’s north coast has been chosen as the site of Britain's first spaceport. Vertical rocket and satellite launches are planned from the A’Mhoine peninsula, in Sutherland, which the UK Space Agency says will pave the way for human spaceflights
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Sutherland UK Spaceport? BBC Breakfast 16/7/18

A remote, boggy stretch of land on the north coast of Scotland is likely to become the UK's first spaceport.
The A'Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland has been chosen as the most suitable place from which to launch rockets vertically to put satellites in orbit.
The UK Space Agency is giving Highlands and Islands Enterprise £2.5m towards the development of the facility.
HIE will work closely with a consortium that includes the American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
The goal would be to have launches as early as possible in the 2020s.

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Space Weather News | A Filament Sandwiched by Sunspots 03.20.2019

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This week we are coming down from a solar storm from some fast solar wind, but that doesn't mean the fun is over! We have two fast-growing sunspots on the Earth-facing Sun and they are sandwiching a filament that is growing more unstable by the day. If this filament erupts within the next day or so, we could have an Earth-directed solar storm! We are keeping a close watch on this to be sure. Also, one of the new sunspots may be showing signs of an influence of solar cycle 25. Just like the previous rogue sunspot we saw a few weeks ago, this new region has a dominant magnetic signature that runs north-south instead of east-west. Its too early to tell what the final polarity of this region will be, but if it continues this way, it will be yet another signal that solar cycle 25 is closer than we think! Learn the details of this filament sandwich, get the scoop on the two new sunspots that may cause its launch, and see what else our Sun has in store for us this week!
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HiClip: In the Gullies and Bedrock of Ius Chasma (Mars)

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